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The Kroger grocery store at College Station Shopping Center at College Station and Barnett Shoals roads in Athens.

Kroger customers and associates contributed more than $25,160 in just six weeks to Kroger’s 2016 Can Hunger campaign — and an additional $5,000 to a second initiative benefitting the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia.

Additionally, Kroger’s annual “Bringing Hope to the Table” campaign engaged customers to help fight hunger. Between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31, 2016, when customers shared a photo of their empty dinner plate with #PictureYourPlate, Kroger donated the equivalent of 1,000 meals for each picture to Feeding America.

Kroger’s Atlanta Division, which includes Athens, raised more than $752,000 through Can Hunger and more than $192,200 from “Bringing Hope to the Table” for a total of $944,200, or the equivalent of 3.6 million meals to support food banks across Georgia, Eastern Alabama, and South Carolina. The donated amount surpassed its $600,000 goal.